More than 600 million years ago, massive ice sheets enveloped the Earth, covering both land and oceans. What led to this dramatic freeze? And crucially, what caused the planet to warm up again? The signs of this phenomenon, known as Snowball Earth, can still be found etched across every continent today.
Show
Eons
Episode
S03E22
Air Date
Jul 17, 2019
Season 3 Episodes
S03E01
When Humans Were Prey
S03E02
How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
S03E03
The Humans That Lived Before Us
S03E04
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
S03E05
The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
S03E06
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
S03E07
The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
S03E08
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
S03E09
When We First Made Tools
S03E10
When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
S03E11
When We Tamed Fire
S03E12
The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
S03E13
The Croc That Ran on Hooves
S03E14
When We Took Over the World
S03E15
The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
S03E16
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
S03E17
The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
S03E18
How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
S03E19
When the Synapsids Struck Back
S03E20
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
S03E21
When We Met Other Human Species
S03E22
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
S03E23
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
S03E24
When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
S03E25
Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
S03E26
The Missing Link That Wasn’t
S03E27
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
S03E28
When Bats Took Flight
S03E29
How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
S03E30
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
S03E31
When Antarctica Was Green
S03E32
The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
S03E33
When Hobbits Were Real
S03E34
Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
S03E35
How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
S03E36
When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
S03E37
Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
S03E38
The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
S03E39
The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda